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Vineuil is located some 100 miles (161 kilometers) from Paris, the national capital.
Visiting just one town or city, no matter how popular, will only ever furnish you with a glimpse into the wider textures and qualities of a region. So be sure to discover Centre - Loire Valley's other sights and attractions. Head to Blois, and pay a visit to the St. Louis Cathedral and Musee d'Histoire Naturelle. Blois is 2 miles (3 kilometers) away from Vineuil is a great place to spend some time. A trip to Bourre is another interesting option. It's about 18 miles (29 kilometers) from Vineuil and where you'll find the La Magnanerie and Caves Champignonnieres.
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Faith is a pivotal part of every region's DNA, so set aside some time to visit the area's cathedrals and other sites of religious significance. Spend a few hours exploring Centre - Loire Valley's craft workshops. These are great destinations to spend time, particularly when the weather is a little moody.
There are times when the best way to get a feel for a place is by tapping into local knowledge. The region offers some very informative cycling tours, winery tours and city walking tours.
As the sun sets on your adventures, spend your last euros on that last souvenir and say Au revoir / À bientôt to the interesting characters you've met and the places you've come to love.
Accommodation in Vineuil
There are only a few places to stay in Vineuil that are registered on the Expedia Vineuil lodging page, so it's a good idea to make reservations.


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Davis' advice for Jenkins: 'Go above and beyond'
Vernon Davis suggests A.J. Jenkins should refine his studying habits. (AP)
Kyle Williams: "We're open to his (Jon Baldwin's) play-making ability. And (I) can't wait to get him in here and see what he can do." (AP)
Rookie Quinton Patton is viewed as a lock to make the team. (AP)
SANTA CLARA -- Wide receiver A.J. Jenkins is no longer in the battle for playing time or even a 49ers roster spot.
Jon Baldwin, whom the 49ers acquired Monday from the Kansas City Chiefs in a trade for Jenkins, finds himself in the competition.
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"We're all open to it over here," 49ers receiver Kyle Williams said. "We're open to the competition. We're open to his play-making ability. And (I) can't wait to get him in here and see what he can do."
The 49ers saw all Jenkins could do in one full regular season, during which time he did not catch a pass. And after the nine-week offseason program and first three weeks of training camp, the 49ers decided they were better off without him.
A week ago, 49ers tight end Vernon Davis was asked about the wide receivers on the roster, other than veteran Anquan Boldin, who have impressed him. Jenkins was the only player Davis mentioned.
"Very surprised. Very surprised," Davis said of the trade. "But I know this business. It's unfortunate, but sometimes when you're not impressing the coach, then they're thinking, 'What else can we do?' I think it's a great situation for A.J. He can start somewhere new, somewhere fresh."
Davis said he still believes Jenkins can learn from his experience with the 49ers and make the most of the change of scenery.
"Maybe take his approach toward the game up a notch," Davis said. "That's something he can benefit from. Just go above and beyond being a professional.
"Not on the field, not his game. I'm talking about away from the game, as far as studying habits."
Said Williams, "I know his talent is there. He has all the tools to be not only a good receiver, but a great receiver in this league. He didn't get drafted in the first round for nothing."
Williams and Anquan Boldin appear to have spots solidly on the 49ers' 53-man roster. Rookie Quinton Patton is viewed as a lock to make the team, too.
Patton returned to practice this week after being limited due to a broken index finger in his left hand. Patton, a fourth-round draft pick, will compete for playing time against Baldwin and the other 49ers receivers, including Marlon Moore, Austin Collie, Lavelle Hawkins, Chad Hall, Ricardo Lockette, Kassim Osgood and Chuck Jacobs.
"I'll just try to put my best foot forward and leave it up to the coaches to decide who plays," Patton said.
The 49ers' top two wide receivers from last season, Michael Crabtree and Mario Manningham, will not be available for most of the season.
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That leaves the position in the hands of Boldin and a largely unproven group of wide receivers.
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Defending champion Rafael Nadal converted five of his first six break-point chances in an emphatic 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 second-round win over Slovakia's Lukas Lacko, extending his run to nine straight wins at Melbourne Park.
The Spaniard was rarely pushed by 75th-ranked Lacko, who struggled with his serve and amassed 53 unforced errors at Rod Laver Arena.
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"I played a serious match. I think I played the match what I need to play," said Nadal, a six-time Grand Slam winner. "I was playing, moving well in the beginning without mistakes, having with the control of the ball."
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Britain's Andy Murray, who could meet Nadal in the quarterfinals, advanced to the third round after beating Marc Gicquel of France 6-1, 6-4, 6-3. Murray is attempting to win his first Grand Slam title and become the first British man in more
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No. 14 Marin Cilic, who ended French veteran Fabrice Santoro's 70th Grand Slam campaign in the first round, rallied to beat local hope Bernard Tomic in five sets in a center-court second-round match that finished after 2 a.m. local time.
No. 7 Andy Roddick had a heated exchange with the chair umpire over a line call after his 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 win over Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci.
Roddick argued with the chair umpire, Fergus Murphy of Ireland,
over a disputed call at a critical time that was ruled out when it
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The Hisense Arena crowd didn't appreciate Roddick continuing the
verbal jousting with Murphy after the match ended and booed the
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American John Isner had a 6-3, 7-6 (4), 7-5 second-round win over Louk Sorensen, who on Tuesday became the first Irishman to win a Grand Slam main-draw match.
No. 11 Fernando Gonzalez of Chile, the 2007 runner-up, beat Turkey's Marsel Ilhan 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.
In other matches, Russian Evgeny Korolev knocked out No. 21 Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 and Feliciano Lopez of Spain beat Rainer Schuettler of Germany 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
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Growing Pains for a Doll Maker
A Model Case of Risks and Rewards in Small Business
By GLENN COLLINS
Published: September 17, 1996
WESTBROOK, Me.— It isn't all crinoline dresses and cute blinky blue eyes in the doll business.
Last Christmas, Georgetown Collection Inc., a hot maker of collectible porcelain dolls, bet the survival of its business on play dolls for girls aged 6 to 11. It called the line the Magic Attic Club, 80 percent of which would have to be sold during the holidays.
Then the newest shipment of dolls from the company's factory in China arrived. And suddenly, six weeks before Christmas Day, the company's 100 employees found themselves scrambling to correct a disastrous and unforeseen product flaw: the dolls' arms were falling off.
For thousands of parents and little girls who had sent in their orders, Christmas morning was in jeopardy. But Georgetown faced nothing less than its demise. And so, secretaries, accountants, managers and the company's president toiled long into the night for weeks to reassemble 40,000 dolls and fix 80,000 little arms.
That effort saved the company and gave Magic Attic such a smashing season that it is now poised for success. Takeover offers and deals from feature-film producers, television syndicators and CD-ROM entrepreneurs are pouring in.
But there is no happy ending just yet. The privately held Georgetown is still struggling. Rich with ideas, expertise and enterprise, but capital poor, it is trying to keep up with skyrocketing demand while eyeing its potential competitors warily.
In many ways, Georgetown can be seen as a paradigm for thousands of small American companies that are trying to exploit their specialized knowledge, pulling themselves up by their own entrepreneurial bootstraps.
Initial success inevitably leads to the more daunting problems of rapid expansion: staffing, warehousing, distribution demands and foreign sourcing crises, as well as a host of unforeseen competitive forces beyond their control.
''This is the point where companies grow or fail,'' acknowledged Gretchen Springer, Georgetown's 37-year-old vice president for marketing, a former new-product manager at Johnson & Johnson. ''We're at that point -- in response to demand -- where the company now has to manage its success and make the transition to the theoretical opportunity.''
In a matter of months last year, Georgetown had to expand drastically the capacity of its telephone order center and the software that served it and enlarge its inventory and order-fulfillment systems.
But even then, Georgetown found itself in a Yuletide competition for part-time phone-order-takers with the Maine mega-cataloguer L. L. Bean, which is only 15 minutes away.
Rapidly expanding entrepreneurial companies like Magic Attic ''need capital and resources to take their business to a higher plane, yet it's hard to maintain consistency and credibility with their banks without a long track record,'' said Jill S. Krutick, an analyst with Smith Barney. ''Managing the cost side of the business is crucial, because inevitably they will be tested on their pricing by new competitors.''
Like many young businesses, Magic Attic Club is a refinement of an existing product. The market for high-priced vinyl dolls was created by the Pleasant Company of Middleton, Wis., 10 years ago with its then history-themed American Girls collection. Using glossy catalogues and books to fire older girls' imaginations, Pleasant established a growing new market niche as the age of girls who play with Mattel Inc.'s Barbie became younger, analysts say. Although giant toy companies have generally ignored older girls, small companies like Magic Attic and Pleasant Company are offering dolls that sell for $40 to $130 and more.
A former teacher and textbook writer and publisher, Pleasant T. Rowland, the Pleasant Company's founder and president, termed Magic Attic ''the most extensive effort at imitation'' among her competitors -- ''a shameless rip-off.''
Jeffrey H. McKinnon, the 44-year-old president of Georgetown, credits Pleasant with ''pioneering a unique new marketing approach to bringing a new type of play experience to older girls.''
But he added, ''We felt there was room in the market for another entrant,'' specifically one that offered finely detailed dolls for $59 instead of Pleasant's $82 and that focused on contemporary dolls.
While retailers are even now busily preparing for the Christmas toy season, the key to Magic Attic's business plan is direct response: only 5 percent of its 18-inch dolls are sold in retail stores, mostly collectors' specialty doll stores. Demand for Magic Attic dolls is driven not only by the colorful world of its catalogue but also by 17 books from the Magic Attic Press. The company has shipped 1.5 million $5.95 books to date and also profits from orders for accessories ranging from nightgowns to bedroom sets.
The dolls in the Magic Attic Club -- Alison, Megan, Heather and Keisha -- are four best friends who discover a trunk full of costumes in the attic of a neighbor's house. In the books, which bear more than a passing similarity to C. S. Lewis's ''The Chronicles of Narnia,'' the dolls are transported by a magic mirror on adventures through time and space.


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ZAZA is up $.43 00 $1.80 but is just starting its rebouns to $5:
-150,000 net acres in thickest part of Eagle Ford formation.
Eagle Ford iis selling for $10,000 - $23,000 per Acre. ZAZA HAS 150,000 NET ACRES WORTH AT LEAST $1.5 BILLION.
-Minimal debt and well capitalized, Just received $69 MM from Hess.
-In the prrocess of selling shale assets in France that shoud give at least another $50 MM.
-Currently fracing anew Eagle Ford well, results will be announced soon.
Most in the industry point to Petrohawk Energy (acquired by BHP Billiton – NYSE: BHP) as the first company to realize the potential of the Eagle Ford — Potential which many see today, such as Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO). Its COO Dave Roberts has stated that the Eagle Ford is the best play on unconventional resource liquids in the United States today and perhaps even the world, calling it "the top basin we have in the world today."Marathon is putting its money where its mouth is, spending roughly 30% of its $5 billion worldwide budget on the Eagle Ford. Marathon alone expects its Eagle Ford production to grow from 9,000 bopd in Q4 2011 to 100,000 bopd in 2016.
These factors have led to a land boom in the Eagle Ford in Texas. The cost of drilling rights there has risen from less than $4,000 an acre at the beginning of 2010 to more than $20,000 an acre according to IHS Cera. Some deals have priced the land higher.
this guy made a good call. GMXR was at .70 when he posted this. Zaza is now at 2.34 a month later, up a solid 25-30%.


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Frank Rich
Jon Stewart's Perfect Pitch
Published: April 20, 2003
(Page 2 of 2)
In an interview with Mr. Stewart and Ben Karlin, the show's co-executive producer, I asked why material like this has failed, as yet, to make "The Daily Show" a target of the patriotism police who have tried to impose a rigid wartime speech code on most of American discourse, pop culture included. "It's different coming from us than the Dixie Chicks," said Mr. Karlin, who was formerly an editor of the satirical newspaper The Onion. "It's more expected that we're going to process a news event and have a take on it." Maybe, but it's also a matter of tone. As Laura Miller has observed in Salon, Mr. Stewart is not self-righteous — an increasingly rare quality right now. This is a time when antiwar voices have often felt (not without reason) that they have to be strident to be heard above the military music, and the keepers of jingoistic political correctness feel they must be just as shrill to shout them down. "The Daily Show" is anomalously rational. "Our audience can watch without feeling like we're grabbing them by the lapels and shouting `This is the truth!' in their faces," said Mr. Stewart. "Our show is about not knowing what the truth is."
"The Daily Show" prides itself on its bipartisanship. "People ask, `Why aren't you really making fun of Democrats right now?' " Mr. Stewart says, "and we say we'd love to if we knew where they were." But what makes the show original is that it tends not to even recognize party-line categories. In Mr. Stewart's view, "Liberals and conservatives are two gangs who have intimidated rational, normal thinking beings into not having a voice on television or in the culture." He argues that they are on their way to extinction: "Liberals and conservatives are paradigms that mean nothing to anyone other than the media. Liberals were relevant when there was a giant cause to fight for — civil rights. They accomplished it so well that the only thing left for them to do now is to get women into Augusta. So what are they? And what are Rush and the Ann Coulters battling? They're still fighting the cold war. You know, Russia gave up a long time ago."
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Mr. Stewart caused a stir by shunning comedy entirely. He shut down "The Daily Show" for a week, then returned with a tearful monologue about the attack on his city. "This time," Mr. Karlin says, "we all thought at the beginning there's no way we're going to be able to do the war." The default position was to stick with jokes about the media. But the war itself increasingly became the subject, and the jokes about President Bush depart from the late-nite clichés. The Bush on "Saturday Night Live" may still be frat-boy simple, wishing that "Shock and Awe" had been named "Tango & Cash," but "The Daily Show" sees a slicker operator. After the president told the Iraqis in a subtitled TV address that they were "a good and gifted people" who "deserve better than tyranny and corruption and torture chambers," Mr. Stewart cited it as proof that "condescension knows no borders." Nor is the show taking at face value the White House's professed devotion to postwar Iraq. "We won," said Mr. Colbert in his "report" from Baghdad 10 days ago. "Rebuilding is for losers. Time to party! Then it's off to Syria for the next invasion."
But the relief that a viewer can take away from "The Daily Show" has less to do with its specific point of view than with its unfailingly polite but firm refusal to subscribe to anyone else's program. For those who share Andy Rooney's gloom, it's a place to find a smart take on the war that does not abide by the strict guidelines that come with either blind support or apoplectic rejection of "Operation Iraqi Freedom."
"It's so interesting to me that people talk about late-night comedy being cynical," Mr. Stewart says. "What's more cynical than forming an ideological news network like Fox and calling it `fair and balanced'? What we do, I almost think, is adorable in its idealism. It's quaint." He's not wrong. During this war, the notion of exercising cant-free speech on an American TV network, even a basic cable network, has proved to be idealistic, quaint and too often restricted to Comedy Central at 11 o'clock.


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Frank C. Coleman
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1 - 19 of 19 Comments Last updated Dec 22, 2011
#1 Nov 15, 2011
Hey, not trying to start any drama, but I am looking for my 1st love. If you remember riding with Jody (your cousin) and Lisa in Bowling Green, KY listening to Dire Straits and Bob Seger, than it's you.
Just want to see how you are? Family? Play catch up? Can't help it, you always remember your 1st love.....or at least I remember you.
#3 Dec 5, 2011
This is strange but i was looking for frank also.
he was one of my best friends and I last saw him 11 or 12 years ago. I also remeber you Debbie.
Me and frank hitched a ride to see you from Bowling green to Franklin 25 or so years ago. He was on crutches at the time due to a leg injury. If you remember this also please post again and I will respond so we can find him together. Best of luck to you and when I find him I'll let him know your looking.
#4 Dec 5, 2011
P.S. He last lived in St. louis MO I know this because I stoped to see him there when I was over the road truck driving 15 or so years ago. I also remember Lisa who was Jody's girl friend. I hope you post back soon.
#5 Dec 5, 2011
He now lives in Goose Creek, which is located in French Village MO
#6 Dec 5, 2011
Is he like in hie 60s?
#7 Dec 5, 2011
No. He should be 39 or 40. thanks though
#8 Dec 6, 2011
Jason, I remember you well, still have a picture of you.
I found Frank on Facebook, but I might have caused him some problems cause he blocked me. He visited his dad in BG during Thanksgiving, but I didn't find that out till the following Monday.
I can tell you if you look for him on Facebook, he's listed in Imperial, Missouri. I'm also on there as Debbie Strickland. Drop me a line, let me know what's been happening with you. "IF" it won't cause you any problems too. Got Lisa, and Sandra on there too. Loved to hear from you! I'll give you all the information I have on Frank.
#9 Dec 7, 2011
Jason E. Now I find myself looking for you!
If your still in BG, just throwing this out, but Lisa, her husband Steve, and Sharon (don't think you know her) will be at my house Saturday night for a little gathering. I live in Franklin,(1 turn off 31-W) so if you and your girlfriend/spouse want to come, Lisa and I would love to see you.
#11 Dec 15, 2011
I remember everything the good the bad the ugly too bad the ugly was me.
#12 Dec 15, 2011
If your Frank, I remember 1 ugly thing and that is ONLY because it hurt me, I have never thought bad of you. I only wish I told you HOW much you meant to me and wouldn't have been so scared. I still remember you fondly after 20 years and I always will.
#13 Dec 15, 2011
You can't be the one I'm looking for because there were so many things I did to hurt her.I so wish it was.Karma hurts...
#14 Dec 16, 2011
#15 Dec 16, 2011
If you weren't in BG, KY during Thanksgiving than no, its not you.
AND nobody is stalking nobody. Sorry, if looking for someone who left an imprint on your heart (no matter how long ago it was)is what your calling stalking. I only wanted to get to know the man, that use to be the boy........that I once loved.
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#17 Dec 17, 2011
you keep sending him messages. He has not responded to any of this, dont you get it? He is trying to be nice and ignore you thinking you will go away, but no you just keep going contacting family, messages every day, come on girl get over it and move on. He has a family that if you looked it says that right on his facebook! Twenty years ago, dont you have a life of your own? Because the one your trying to get is mine and has been for a lot of years!
#18 Dec 19, 2011
First Id like to say, I have NOT contacted or harnessed ANY family members, or SENT messages every day.
In my VERY first sentence it says,Hey, not trying to start any DRAMA.
Ive tried every way to explain this, Im NOT looking to start ANY trouble, I said I LOVED the BOY and wondered what kind of MAN he had grown into.(First message, 2nd paragraph),Just wanted to see how you are? Family? Play catch up?
NEVER once said, hey you wanna hook up? Or next time youre in town come by and I screw your brains out!
I ONLY wanted to get to know Frank as a grown man, ONLY because he MEANT so much to me A LONG time ago. DAMN, Im NOT trying to wreck ANYONES HAPPY FAMILY, or MESS with ANYONES life.
Dont worry, I will not bother YOU, HIM, YOUR family, his FATHER EVER , and I MEAN EVER AGAIN! And NO! I DONT have a life! I lost my husband 8 years ago, and my child 2 years ago! So, NO! I HAVE NOTHING BUT MY FRIENDS WHO MEAN THE WORLD TO ME, and getting back with them made me remember and think about Frank.
THATS IT. END OF STORY. That being said, Im STILL woman enough to apologize to you, for any heart ache that I might have caused you. BUT you have NOTHING to worry about. Have a GREAT life with FRANK! Hes YOURS!(Not EVERY ONE, is a scheming, conveying, whore like you think)!!
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#19 Dec 19, 2011
well what would you think if you were in my shoes? I read your comments and they also said you remembered him fondly and loved him and still had all these feelings 20 years later. Im sorry for your losses and i hope everything works out for you! I truely do! But think of how i felt when a friend called me to look at these massages you were posting.
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#20 Dec 19, 2011
iv known frank for over 22 years and iv heard stories about his younger days and some included you. Im sorry if i mis-understood your motives and he is a great man and wonderfull dad and grandpa. I wouldnt trade my family for anything in the world. Iv loved this man for all these years and yes i was ready to fight for my man. I know it sounds stupid but thats how i felt. jody is also married and has kids and grandkids. I hope you have a good life and are able to be happy and maybe find someone to share it with.
#21 Dec 21, 2011
#22 Dec 22, 2011
Glad you gals worked it out.
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I am really curious on why this stock has such a large short interest. If there are any shorts that read this message board can you layout the facts for why you think this company stock is going down? And any longs what do you see as the possible reason this stock could underperform?
I have no position in this stock...but the rumor on the street is that they are going to miss guidance. It's a turdy little brick & mortar company in my opinion. My kids don't even go to GME anymore...they buy on-line or thru gamefly. I think that's the future.
just wondering if you have anything to back up "the rumor on the street" you referenced?the company provided guidance of 1.53 to 1.59 (consensus is 1.56). they also estimated same store sales increases of 2% to 4%. holiday sss were up 3.4% -- disappointing but above the median of their estimate. extrapolation would lead to earnings above the median -- or above the consensus of 1.56.
"Why so many shorts?" Clearly you know NOTHING about this stock if you truly don't know the answer to that, Pathetic!
Ha pulling up old posts. Nice funny thing is I still haven't gotten a good short to answer this question. Digital downloads are a pretty poor reason to short a stock with 25% short interest, and when there is a squeeze it will be bloody. They have good cash flow, buying back stock, digital sales growth, paying down debt, huge mag. audience. Right now the stock is hated oh well, I prefer a value play over say a growth stock with a stupid p/e.
A lot of people believe that GME will go out of business. Digital downloads, other platforms for games such as the ipad. The gamefly ipo. However, you'll notice that even as the short position has increased over the last 3 months, the price of GME stock has increased. There is a lot of buying going on. Personally, I'm long GME so I'm confident that GME will do very well in the future. And the shorts will have to cover at prices that higher than they originally sold at.
In my opinion, GME will be tendered a buyout offer if the stock price remains anywhere under 25 in 2011.


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How do I release the tension on the serpentine belt. The manual says to rotate the tensioner counterclockwise and/or slowly release the tensioner. How does one accomplish this task? If I pry on it, I chance damaging the belt. I'm attempting to replace the alternator.
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Born March 17, 1937, in Fort Smith, AR, blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore began his life as an entertainer after moving to Cleveland, OH, at the age of 15. Forging a music career under the stage name of "Prince Dumarr," Moore belted out gutbucket rhythm & blues while wearing a trademark turban, recording several singles and touring through various… More Bio:
Born March 17, 1937, in Fort Smith, AR, blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore began his life as an entertainer after moving to Cleveland, OH, at the age of 15. Forging a music career under the stage name of "Prince Dumarr," Moore belted out gutbucket rhythm & blues while wearing a trademark turban, recording several singles and touring through various Midwestern cities. By 1959, he had moved to Los Angeles, dropped the pseudonym, and was focusing on a standup act. A trio of comedy albums released in the early '60s on Dooto Records didn't hit for him, so Moore worked part-time in a record store, where a local wino named Rico would often visit to beg for change. The panhandler recited bawdy "toasts" in exchange for food money, tall tales set to rhyme that have figured in African-American culture for years. One of these stories was "Dolemite," the tale of a mythical black superman who fights lions and can kill women with the power of his lovemaking. Moore began incorporating "Dolemite" and other toasts into his act, as well as expanding on the suggestive humor of Redd Foxx with explicit profanity and crude jokes about life on the ghetto streets. He self-financed the release of an album in this new style, and Eat Out More Often was a surprise hit in 1970, spending time on the Billboard soul charts despite the fact that record stores had to keep the album behind the counter. Moore followed with a number of X-rated comedy platters, all recorded in his own home with friends as the audience (which led them to be dubbed "party records").
By 1975, Moore decided to branch out into motion pictures, and again staked his own money to produce a film version of his most famous routine. Dolemite was a low-budget action-adventure-comedy shot in and around Moore's Los Angeles home. With Moore as the titular pimp-hero (wearing a dazzling array of funky outfits), a harem of kung fu-fighting prostitutes, corrupt white politicians, and plenty of excuses for Moore to perform snippets of his nightclub act, the film was an outlandish, ridiculous vehicle for the comedian that successfully brought his vision to the screen. It was popular enough to warrant a sequel, The Human Tornado (1976), as well as an adaptation of another of Moore's standup routines, The Devil's Son-In-Law (1977). After releasing the concert film Rudy Ray Moore: Rude in 1982, the comedian's movie appearances dried up, though he continued to make personal appearances and sporadic recordings.
Many rappers have named Moore as a major influence and samples from his records and films have turned up on releases by artists like Dr. Dre, Big Chief, and 2 Live Crew. While the rhythmic, profane delivery on his comedy albums accounts for his reputation in the hip-hop world, it can be argued that his films are responsible for keeping his legend alive today. Many of Moore's films are widely available in mainstream video outlets, while his X-rated records are often difficult to find.
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This is a golden era for initial public offerings. More of them priced in the second quarter of 2013, 44 in all, than in any period since the final quarter of 2006. A strong small-cap market has helped push these fledgling-company shares to new heights: The average first-half deal jumped 16.97% on its first day, gaining a total of 39.16% by the end of July. "I'd characterize the IPO market as white hot," says Tim Keating, CEO of the Denver area's Keating Capital, which invests in private offerings of companies on track to become public.
If you remember, there was nothing white hot about last spring's IPO market. Facebook FB 1.3458731960434571% Facebook Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD125 1.66 1.3458731960434571% /Date(1469739600350-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 78230606 AFTER HOURS USD125.34 0.34 0.272% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 725152 P/E Ratio 60.09615384615385 Market Cap 352798698780.664 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1557480 More quote details and news » (ticker: FB) had just raised $16 billion in May, the biggest Internet IPO of all time. The deal was overpriced, a technology glitch at Nasdaq caused shares to be misallocated, and a number of buyers accused the company and its bankers of selectively disseminating earnings revisions to bigger investors. Very few IPOs of any sort got done for awhile afterward. It's fitting, then, that last week Facebook's share price, in this year's stronger market, got back to its original offering price of $38, after falling as low as $17.55.
Ripples from the Facebook deal haven't spent themselves yet. For the first six months of 2013, the new-issue market priced 67 IPOs, raising $18 billion, compared with 59 deals worth $25.2 billion in the same period a year earlier, according to Dealogic, which tracks stock and bond offerings. But then again, Facebook's offering accounted for nearly two-thirds of 2012's first-half volume.
Conditions this year are more balanced and healthy. U.S. stocks generally have gained, with a blistering pace set by the small-cap group that most IPOs join. The Russell 2000 Index, the small-cap benchmark, rose 15% in the first half, well ahead of the S&P 500's nearly 13% gain. At the same time, the markets have been less volatile, giving bankers, issuers, and investors a little more breathing room to value the deals and the market (see the best- and worst-performing deals, in the Easy Money graphic below). The question is how long this supportive environment lasts.
For now, at least, the result is not just more deals, but also more diverse and mature issuers. Rather than Facebook and a smattering of finance deals in 2012, this year has seen health care, construction, technology, and finance/insurance all account for more than 10% of dollar volume (see table below headed "A More Diverse, Balanced Mix of IPO Issuers"). Issuers have ranged from Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings NCLH 1.9700925706147638% Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. U.S.: Nasdaq USD42.96 0.83 1.9700925706147638% /Date(1469739600131-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1566326 AFTER HOURS USD42.96 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3313 P/E Ratio 18.92511013215859 Market Cap 9563552670.74693 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 169226 More quote details and news » (NCLH) and Noodles & Co. NDLS -1.7264276228419655% Noodles & Co. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD7.4 -0.13 -1.7264276228419655% /Date(1469739600365-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 221237 AFTER HOURS USD7.4 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 235 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 209244389.400211 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 43742.9 More quote details and news » (NDLS) to Coty COTY -0.5979073243647235% Coty Inc. Cl A U.S.: NYSE USD26.6 -0.16 -0.5979073243647235% /Date(1469739635701-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 451305 AFTER HOURS USD26.59 -0.01 -0.03759398496240601% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5200 P/E Ratio 47.5 Market Cap 9038270313.20641 Dividend Yield 0.9398496240601504% Rev. per Employee 529099 More quote details and news » (COTY), ING U.S. VOYA -0.509204857030944% Voya Financial Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD25.4 -0.13 -0.509204857030944% /Date(1469739657136-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1701759 AFTER HOURS USD25.4 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2413 P/E Ratio 13.804347826086957 Market Cap 5207073400.69817 Dividend Yield 0.15748031496062992% Rev. per Employee 1678590 More quote details and news » (VOYA), and SeaWorld Entertainment SEAS 1.4569536423841059% SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD15.32 0.22 1.4569536423841059% /Date(1469739721084-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1094329 AFTER HOURS USD15.32 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1750 P/E Ratio 191.5 Market Cap 1338735790.50369 Dividend Yield 5.483028720626632% Rev. per Employee 275331 More quote details and news » (SEAS). (Dealogic's complete list of first-half 2013 IPOs, with pricing terms and returns through mid-July, is available here.) The average age of an IPO company is now a robust 17 years.
"THE STRENGTH HAS COME FROM the backlog of supply built up over the last couple of years. The IPO market was shut down in part because of the European financial crisis" as well as the U.S. mortgage crisis and banking problems in both areas, says Linda Killian, a portfolio manager at Renaissance Capital, a Greenwich, Conn. firm that runs an IPO fund and researches new offerings. "This is the first time in a number of years that we've been able to put together several quarters of uninterrupted deal flow."
Within this flow have been more of the classic venture-capital-backed deals, notes Keating, who counted 21 of them in the second quarter, up from eight in the first. Renaissance, too, noted the shift toward VC-style growth deals and away from megaofferings where buyout firms are returning portfolio companies to the public markets. "Institutional investors have shifted from being risk averse, seeking yield and blue-chip stocks, to seeking growth," says Killian. Another aid was the 2012 passage of the JOBS Act in Congress, which has eased some of the regulatory and filing burdens on small firms, generally regarded as the best generators of new employment opportunities.
Biotech, which accounted for about 20 IPOs in the second quarter (the most since 2000), has been a big beneficiary. Venture money has become more important to these high-risk businesses because government, big pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions have either withdrawn from early-stage development or cut back generally on biotech investments. Also helpful: a streamlined, cost-saving drug-approval process recently passed by the Food and Drug Administration,
Venture-funded bluebird bio BLUE -0.05345687811831789% bluebird bio Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD56.09 -0.03 -0.05345687811831789% /Date(1469739600349-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1027410 AFTER HOURS USD56.09 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19872 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2073241165.06943 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 36354.3 More quote details and news » (BLUE), a prime example of biotech's renewed popularity, came public on June 19, opening at $25.50, 50% above its initial price. The Cambridge, Mass.–based firm concentrates on innovative gene therapies for several genetic and orphan diseases such as ALD, which was highlighted in the movie Lorenzo's Oil.
Chief Executive Nick Leschly explains that his company and others now get more support from investors with the scientific expertise to invest confidently at earlier stages. As a result, IPOs are "less a financing event and more a value-creation event," part of a company's development, rather than an end in itself, he says.
Its backer, Third Rock Ventures, is among a handful of biotech venture capitalists. "Bluebird and other biotech offerings represent product investment in disruptive areas of science and medicine that result in significant premiums in both the IPO and the merger markets," says Kevin Starr, a co-founder of the Boston-based firm, and also an early sponsor of Agios Pharmaceuticals AGIO -3.7313432835820897% Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD43.86 -1.7 -3.7313432835820897% /Date(1469739600321-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 283899 AFTER HOURS USD43.86 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4483 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 1727726412.39899 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 270183 More quote details and news » (AGIO), another biotech that priced last month.
RECENT BIOTECH FILINGS INCLUDE cancer-treatment developer Foundation Medicine (backed by Third Rock and Google Ventures, among others) and protein-therapy developer Five Prime Therapeutics (backed by Pfizer PFE -0.48846675712347354% Pfizer Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD36.67 -0.18 -0.48846675712347354% /Date(1469739604220-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15968598 AFTER HOURS USD36.7 0.03 0.08181074447777474% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 288356 P/E Ratio 27.16296296296296 Market Cap 223489680858.079 Dividend Yield 3.2724297791109898% Rev. per Employee 520858 More quote details and news » [PFE] and Domain Associates).
Oft-rumored IPO candidates such as Dropbox, which enables sharing of files such as photos and videos, and Twitter, the social-media site likely to receive Facebook-like publicity, will have to decide soon if they want to cash in on this market.
Others facing this decision include Chegg, which provides online textbook rentals, homework help, and access to scholarships for college students; Violin Memory, which makes flash-memory arrays; Sugar CRM, an enterprise-software outfit whose functions include sales-force automation and customer support; Foursquare, a social-networking site for mobile devices that alerts others to your location and gives tips on what to do at specific venues; Spotify, a subscription-based music-streaming service that lets you choose songs or listen to the song collections of others, including recording artists; and King, a game maker for mobile devices.
More traditional businesses such as retailer Neiman Marcus, home builder LGI Homes, and dining chains like Cheddar's Casual Café have all filed preliminary papers to go public.
But can the small-cap market handle the stampede? The multiple on the Russell 2000 is a hefty 19 times next year's projected earnings, well above the large-cap benchmark S&P 500's 14 times.
With each passing quarter, it becomes more likely that the two-year small-cap rally will slow down or even reverse course, says Henry Ellenbogen, portfolio manager of the T. Rowe Price New Horizons fund (PRNHX), with assets of $12 billion.
That means the clock is ticking for a lot of CEOs of small, growing businesses, says Richard Peterson, a director at S&P Capital IQ, a research firm and data collector in New York. For these corporate chieftains, Peterson says, "The issue is: Why are you waiting? The markets are now at record highs; if you can't do an IPO now, when can you do it?"
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The story centers around female detective So Young [Song Yoon Ah] who seems to be a sort of tortured soul, always experiencing nightmares and apparently haunted by a tragedy in her past. She is teamed up with a rookie Hyun Gi [Lee Dong Wook] on a murder case where the victim is found burned to death though the cause of death is found to be asphyxiation. Later a series of similar murders has the detectives struggling to put the clues together in search of a serial killer. The clues point to a connection with a murder case that occurred many years ago.
What ultimately lifts this movie for me is not really the supernatural aspect [which is quite typical in comparison to other Asian horror flicks], but the well-crafted storyline with its twists and turns. You don't really see the connections until the ending and that really made me appreciate the movie even more. Though there are a few plotholes, all in all the story did seem to flow seamlessly and the lead actors do a pretty credible job of keeping the suspense alive throughout the film.
If you have been watching way too many Asian horror flicks, then you will not find anything new or exciting with thr supernatural part of this movie, but if you like to see something new with the detective story within a horror story, then this is worth checking out.
The detective in question is So-Young Min, who is just coming off a suspension for beating up a man accused of sexual assault...We'll learn later about the dark secret that she hides and the reason for her hatred of sexual predators. She is saddled with a new partner, a rookie to the violent crimes unit who transferred over from forensics. He's over eager but is willing to learn from the experienced So-young Min. The pair are soon investigating a series of brutal murders of a group of friends who were involved in a murder nine years earlier. A young man was killed and shortly after, his girlfriend Kim Min Jeong goes missing. The men involved begin seeing apparitions of a hideous, pale female with blood dripping from her eyes like tears.
They each receive e-mails that plays a video showing them the site of the Salt storehouse where the murder took place nine years earlier. Soon the detectives are frantically scrambling to unlock the secrets of the past and to save the surviving partners. But Arang is a film loaded with sudden twists and secrets and what seems to be a pedestrian ghost story takes a turn for the clever and gives viewers much more.
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The acting is top notch and it does what all Asian cinema tries to do...present the same old-stroy line with a twist. When they succeed it is a homerun. And this one is still traveling out of the park.
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The downside of Arang, the first feature-length offering from Blind director Sang-hoon Ahn, is that it treads no new ground at all; it takes a common Korean mythological figure (if you google Arang, you'll come up with many versions of the story; even Wikipedia has an entry on the Arang story), weds it with a detective story, and comes up with, well, every Asian supernatural mystery that's been made since the mid-nineties. The upside of Arang is that it separates itself from the pack with some of the finest cinematography you'll see outside a Kiyoshi Kurosawa film, and even were the film not all that hot (and it is a well-made enough film even without the incredible photography) it would be worth seeing for that reason alone.
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After reading the great reviews, I decided to purchase this movie as I absolutely love a good scare. Read morePublished on February 19, 2011 by Jane
Arang was like no other Asian horror film I have ever seen, but I don't think calling this a horror movie is the right category. Read morePublished on February 4, 2011 by bryan
Four young men are being targeted by someone, or something. An old salthouse, the subject of numerous rumors about hauntings and murder was the sight of a grisly crime. Read morePublished on November 22, 2010 by Channel KDK12
This film I would give a 2/5 if it was a horror alone BUT... this movie plays more out like a detective story which is surprisingly interesting because it salvages the film. Read morePublished on September 11, 2010 by maskedgamer
If you buy this movie hoping it treads new horror territory, you're in for a dissapointment. There's nothing here that you haven't seen or heard before. Read morePublished on September 20, 2008 by L. C. Tomas
The story was refreshing, but it had the typical asian ghost. I also enjoyed the actor's commentary.Published on September 8, 2008 by Crystal
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